Inspiring Women Magazine May 2023

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Revisiting 2019...
Karen Lewis
Liz introduces us to her Inspiring
Woman of 2019, Pathways to
Safety International member
Karen Lewis, FAUSA.
"During the FAWCO Biennial
Conference in 2019 in Edinburgh,
I had the opportunity to attend a workshop
hosted by Keri Potts of Pathways to Safety
International and learn more about this
important organization. It’s one of those
organizations that we all secretly hope we
never need to use and would prefer if the
world was a place where it wasn’t necessary for
something like that to exist. But that is a
non-existent pipe dream, so I for one am very
grateful that Keri and the team at Pathways do
the work that they do.
So in 2019 when we published our Health and
Well-Being issue I was fascinated to learn more
about the story of Karen Lewis and thus
Pathways. Karen got involved in Pathways while
she was living in Amsterdam in the early 2000s.
When she repatriated in 2008 she became a
volunteer and even served as president of the
organization from 2013 to 2019.
Karen Lewis
I was also very interested to read more about
her involvement in community health. I think
this is such an important aspect of wellness
and one that can be forgotten in the busyness
that is life in the 2020s. I had no idea that there
was something like the Lady Docs organization
that she mentioned and was impressed to
learn about the ways they support their
local communities."
Karen and her
husband in
Paris at
Christmastime
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